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I TWO . -■»« H/a- INDSPBNDBNT IN POLITIC8 Mettd*yt and TtiiMdar* *t NoHh WBkMbottH N.C Dh J. CAKiraB ao4 JtJUUS C smBBABD. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Oi»e Yeitf - »1*® \ Vonttis Vm Months Out of tSo^te I2.W p« Y»ar ■ilHraO.st th« port afSca rt . ^ ,. rtnk It «Cy a* Memo due eufS# niM^ S^ of MBdi 4. IfTB. THURSDAY, FEB. 3, 1938 The Increasing Burden Nations and sub-divisions throughout the world are in the midst of burden some tax increases. Increased taxation has crept upon the people like a disease and they are iust beginning to realize the tremendous cost of taxes. It is true that no one tax within itself can be singled out as exceptionally op pressive. Yet all the taxes put togeth er are becoming alarmingly high. The people have demanded too much of their government and politicians are only too glad to accommodate con.stitu- ents and try to make each and every one believe that someone else is paying the bill. As we have often said, noth ing could be farther from the truth. Every year seems to bring new taxes and when a squawk comes from some taxpayer who has begun to feel the burden there are plenty to reply and call him some kind of a selfish reclusv who is not public spirited. A nation of happy and prosperous people are those who conscientiously try to get far enough ahead of the game to insure independence and who try to foresee the day when they v/ill not be cases for the public to care for. They have initiative and thrift. They have a desire to accumulate something hon estly. Excessive taxation destroys these at tributes of good citizenship because aft er all a man needs encouragement. We can see no encouragement for the m who works harder and earns more—not for himself, but a tax greedy govern ment, whether it be national, state, county or municipal. Under the complex systems of taxa tion in use now by the various govern ments a person at the head of a very small business enterprise must spend many hours of work each month mak ing out tax reports for the government. He gets nothing for this work. It is an additional penalty over and above the earnings he must pay in taxes. Financing the Country Church The great problem of the country church is to pay its proper expenses and also to grow in spiritual life. That many rural churches are now finding the anwser to this problem in “the Lord’s Acre” plan is evident from an ar ticle in The Progressive Farmer, which reports such instances as these: “Rev. Marshall Nelms, now of Monte zuma, Ga., while pastor of four Bapt:.st churches in Hart county, Ga., wrote that his churches and many other Baptist churches had used the plan successfully for many years. One of his churches led the whole Southern Baptist Conven tion in its gifts to missions, 98 out of 100 families planting and giving one acre or more. “Rev. P. D. Patrick, superintendent of home missions in South Carolina, re ported: “We have 20 churches using the plan, who say that without it they could not carry on.” And what is the Lord’s Acre plan? It is explained as follows: "The original plan was for a church to rent a field and the members worked it together, as a church project, along with their individual crops. But many variations have been found to fit local conditions. Instead of the one field of ten or more or less acres, each family sets aside an acre for God and His church, works it along with their regu lar crop, and gives the proceeds of that acre to the church. Usually the crop is ' cotton, but often it is com, potatoes, . peanuts, or any cash crop. Another va riation is for the men to raise cotton and the women {wd girls to raise chick ens, s II eggs, etc., and the boys raise pigs or calves, tiie proceeds of each ti be given to the, church. “ But. the ,Jbi||^' idea is to be'gim carry on, and cl6se the project in prayer, as~a definite Christian service, the piweeds^ usually being di vided between local expenses and mis-"^ sions. Sounds all right, you say, bul will it'realy work out to the spiritual benefit of the church? Well, the folks who have tried it fairly and thoroughly have almost unanimously reported that it does work when properly conducted.” A Go**d Subject The American Legion hai chosen a most timely subject for the essay con test to be staged in North Carolina. When democracies of the world have been tumbling before ambitious dicta tors offering delusions to hungry people eajferto’sell their freedom for the prom ise'" of a mess of pottage, it is a good time to set the youth of today thinking about “The Advantages of American Citizenship.” American citizenship under the free form of government in use for the past century and a half offers opportunities far greater than material benefits prom ised but never given by dictators. The right to live one’s own life with in reasonable bounds that do not con flict with the inalienable rights of oth ers is priceless. The right to have a voice in the selection of government heads is worth more than Ethiopia will ever be worth to the people of Italy under the iron hand of Mussolini. We must keep in mind safeguarding our form of government that the great est asset to a democracy is prosperous people. Hungry people turn a deaf ear to talk of freedom. When Jesus lived among men He ministered to physical needs. The people were thus more re sponsive to the gospel of the soul. Here is an excerpt from a recent speech in the senate by Senator Borah: “I am perfectly aware, as we all are, of the tide which seems to be running against popular government everywhere —of the base betrayal of the people in many countries where they once had at least some authority and hoped for more, of that profound egotism which regards as of no significance the bitter experience of men and women in their long quest for liberty. But against all these things, if we have the confidence in our form of government which we profess, we can place, not theory, not hopes, not ideals merely, but 150 years of achievement, of demonstrated popu lar rule, with its wealth of human happi ness and human progress. How puny and hollow and fleeting in comparison are the achievements of usurped power, every hour of whose existence depends upon the continued suppression of hu man liberty.” Wonder if there is any relation be tween pump handle handshaking and pump priming. The dog which acts queerly may not have hydrophobia. Maybe its tail wagging it. IS ty AVrCROI Challenging the Social Order LESSON FOR FEBRUARY 6TH Mark 2:13-22 GOLDEN TEXT: MARK 2-17 We sometinies hear a plea for the preaching of the “simple gospel.” The underlying assumption is that the Christian message is spiritual, and has nothing to say concerning controversial so cial questions. A writer to the Cleveland Press voices the following complaint: “When I go to church on Sunday I want food for my soul. In stead, I am reminded from the pulpit of the in justices in the world and even urged to assist in bettering conditions on the earth. ’ This naive point of view ignores the social passion of the Cld Testament prophet.s, and the profund ethical note sounded by Jesus. Con sider the Lord's Prayer. The heart of it is the petition “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth, ’ and there are profound economic im plications in “Give us this day our daily bread.” The plain truth is that active righteousness is part and parcel of God’s service. And right liv ing must be social. However much as we may admire the heroic patience and resourcefulness of Robinson Crusoe it is obvious that his morali ty represents a minimum pattern of conduct. Man, in his normal state, is intensely grepavi- ous. Hence, the greatest of all arts is that of living together. We are, as St. Paul insists, “members one of another.’ Social action should, therefore, not be consid ered a merely incidental aspect of the Christian discipline. It belongs as its very center. And it must be definite. In such a perilous world as ours, seething with discontent, vague generali ties will not do. (Wfi must follow some concrete plan, faulty m it may prove to he in the light of adti^ expoience. All platu reqnfie reyisjon. They must be tested by the method at triad and emu*. , .Jesus ^would be first to insiat tliat. fiiis Church mint ceaseeristbyr prae-. tiieo thrt no lon^ %rirtltm rnlnd. anid miut mpve fonviu^ in Um a^oeacy of new heaveiu and a new earth, wherein dwelleth ririiteoasMaa.” Unfortunate is he who has been born to security. Doubly un fortunate Is tbe young man who moulds his conduct with security as his goal. It we are to make anything of ourselves we must be witling to face the risk of inse curity. In llf.c as In sports, the best rule for the masterful sports man is to play straight for the game, scornful of haeards. But to clutch for money and demand it makes ohe a hypocrite and a braggart. If you would have friends, be one. The great spiritual law which provides that we lose the thing for which we selfishly strive has seemingly been overlooked in our universities and instHutlons that foster the so-called High Culture. Pond parents send their sons to college for but one reason—not td earn an honest living, not to render the world a service, not to preform some necessary task, but to relieve their home duties and fireside interruptions. Many go to college in order to absorb and appropriate a certain imagi nary good. Elbert Hubbard once wrote that; “One’s thirtieth birthday and one’s seventieth are days that press their message home with iron bands.” My father said with his seventieth milestone past, "A man feels that his work is done. Dim voices are calling to me from across the Unseen.” Man's work is done, and so illy, compared with what he had wished and ex pected! But the impressions made upon his heart by the day are no deeper than those his thirtieth birthday inspired. At thirty, youth, with all its pallates and excuses, is gone for ever. The time tor mere fooling is past. The young avoid you, or else look up to you as a Nestor and tempt to grow remin iscent. You are then a mau and ■must give an account of your self. The time has come for you to venture material welfare in this too materialistic age, to turn your back upon ambitions of power or assured positions in or der that you may capture the cer tainty of the eternal. The high est expression to which you, as a man, may aspire. Israel’s Manna If the children of Israel had lived for ^a good many genera tions on the manna which came every day, and spoiled it stored, they would have probably have come to thing poorly of security. But when transplanted to a coun try of cold winters or long dry spells, they too, would have long ed for the sense of security. In our urban civilization there are so! many people who have come to rely on the monthly man na of the salary check, or the weekly manna of the pay enve lope, or the government dole, as to have lost their belief in the virtue of self-support. We, how ever, still have to save .seed, store up food and fodder and are not likely to forget that thrift and forethought are still virtues. Night descends. We rest and sleep. The new day breaks for us. The most insecure people I have met are those who are con stantly seeking new and more extraordinary ways of gratifica tion. who feverishly follow every new clue to pleas'.re and careen madly after money. The pleasure- money-seeker is nearly always a discontented person, finally even hy the illusion of money, and the person who makes a business of pleasure is the latest person to find it. Mother and I, like all mortals, are busily engaged in the quest of security. We aren’t authorities on the subject. We believe those upon whom fortune has heaped a full measure of success has real ly the sliglite.st idea of how it all happened. To us. security is the direct result of learning. To be contented with- conditions that cannot be remade. Discontented with conditions that can be im proved, and saving a part of what we have honestly earned Abe, Woodrow or Franklin If I want to study the birds I do not go in wild search for them: I simply seat myself on a iog in the woods and, lo! soon the branches are vibrant with song. It has also been by exper ience that one can draw from a fuller enjoyment of life by the orocess of simplification and elimination than by adding and multiplying false forms of secur ity. There are a lot of non-es sentials masquerading as security that one can dismiss without, the slightest sense of loss. It^ sounds naradoxical. but H is really -a fact that one of the best ways of adding to your security is to de crease too many pleasures.. Work more. In all nature there is no aoal- ogy to tols thing of making ah animrt as' Mg aa its father ex- einjit troja-aechring U^- iniu.IV)r bird* 111'* Mrt, take plaM aatU loag after la fraught with danger. There has hehn no tlfiie wfthln my memory.when a need- i*r a»> eurtty was more jpronosneeA We can onljr aena^ the ngeft^and taak yon to bnlldFftir tt. BdgtrIn Tonr eertlM anoChrt’ Ziaiorn or WilBen or a least, anothhr iBMCar! of tonchlrdf of inte—h* th* on*' to phrase it, in eneh a.wayvtfiht ft will change pererty into hrturftg. The needs of life, the regnlre- ments tor se^rity. are so few and simple that they are within the reach of everyone. ‘Save a little of yonr income, and your hide-'bonnd pocket will soon begin to thrlre. You will never cry again with an empty stomach. Neither will creditors Insult you. Nor want oppress. Nor hunger bite. Nor nakedness freeze you. The whole hemisphere will shine brighter, and pleasure spring up in every corner of your heart.’’ Muticle Lowe Rites The people of this community were greatly saddened to learn on Thursday morning of the death of Muncie Lowe, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Lowe, of Mo ravian Falls. Muncie had been ill for about 'three weeks, but his condition had not seemed serious until Monday night, and his death has been a shock to both relatives and friends. Muncie had a winning person ality and was loved hy all who knew him, both young and old alike. His death will leave a heartfelt vacancy in the home. At the time of his death, he was IS years, 7 montlis and 19 days old. He graduated from Wil- kesboro high school, where he made a good record and was loved by teachers and students alike. Since his- graduation, he had been connected with Carl W. Steele, jeweler. Tie- is survived by his father and mother, one brother, Herman W. Lowe, of Farmington: four sisters, Mrs. Maston Walsh. Mo ravian Palls; Mrs. Frank Pear son. Boone; Miss Winnie I>5we, at home, and Miss Bertie Lowe, of Burlington. An impressive funeral service was conducted Friday afternoon from the Moravian Falls Baptist church by the pastor. Rev. R. C. Gwaltney, Rev. A. E. Watts. Rev. N. T. Jaiwis and Rev. J. C. Gen try. Beautiful music was rendered by Mrs. Edith Prevette. Mrs. G. T. Mitchell and a male quartet composed of Messrs. R. R. Church, W. A. Stroud, Justice Brewer and Dewey Minton. Pallbearers were cousins of the deceased, Messrs. Cody. James, David, Elmer, Arthur and James Lucius Lowe. j Honorary pallbearers were Lee' Settle, Kenneth Broyhill, Conrad ^ EUer, Clifford Myers, William Steele, Joe Pearson, Jr., Carlos Stout, T. G. Foster, Rufus Walls. Ray Williams, Tassie Williams and James Isaacs. Ill* hOMtifol -pnrtntos 1 Ittupg kilMM Bhndken, jnciT or*, pailntbeth. Nrtl, Joneo. BttMt* 0*vlt. Inei Prtuirt. Lorla DoraUiy Hh* Sa die Brookshire. .Oonnle Lowe, Hesdi2iee.~'are*1t^*0a»; Lowe, Elmer Ldwe^! DoBrld Lewe ead'Mrs.'Plato.HeBdreiL Those ettetMftng thet funofal from out at U>fn. ineftUMI- Meee* rs. Rey eud -TeMle 'WtilUttu, of Galax, Va.; Mr. James Issacs, Mn. T. S. Hauser *j|j **n, Jatfes, and Mrs. Olenn Woodie, of fthn- stoB-Salem; Mrs. P, M. Gerridg' er. Miss BaHy Keto Oeningw, Mr. Hardy Collier and Mr. Pear- tie Gaster,’ of BaiM*|to*: Mr. Itnfnei Wall, of Pulaski, Va"; Messrs,-RusisM Griffin, Cecil,Mil ler. ahd Mr. irifiiler, of Boow; aIs^"MM Bheen Joaea of’eame place;.Mn>*'A. Co^er and daugh ter, Corrlne, of StatesviUe; Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Broek, of Farm ington; Miss Margaret Hendren, Mars Hill; Mr. Lee Settle, Wake Forest; Arthur Lowe, Chapel Hill, and M. G. Edwards. Jr., of Mars Hill. w JlXIf.'^and rt fWdar e^ 'Mr. and Mn>: Cogr Xhanh. hHsw-'MarMta*’ -Dsehear* --spent the wedk^nd ikHfaig bdr sMiP, Mrs." Doris Blaekhum, of *'- IdIe- wUd.;* J- vv-' Miss Elate Cornett, spent. Sat urday night with Mise Bioe*, Chnrch. • Mr. and Mrs. Coy Chureh spent Saturday night with Mr. and ^ Mrs. CajT Chnrch. ' -' Mr. Fabtn Chnrch spent S*t*r- day night with Mr. Atria Gre^^; Miss Sumer Greene, spent Im- day night in the home of - Mr. and Mrs. Lee Cornett. * Messrs. Boyce and Burl . Xf- L keal visited Mr. Ralph keys, Sunday. Mrs. Pressley Church a n-Jjt j daughter, Novella, spent Sato^l^ '1 day afternoon visiting her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Beng. Guesses Number Of Coins In Contest Archie Mathis, son of Mrs. Murph Mathis, of Roaring River route 2, guessed the exact num ber of coins in a glass Jar at Prevette’s Close-Out Store and won the Whltham watch given a- way free. The number of coins was 845. Following is the affa- davit of the count: February 2nd., 1938. I, Dudley S. Hill, assistant cashier of The Northwestern j est and estate of the defendants, Bank, swear (or affirm) that the G. W. Elledge and Elizabeth El- NOTICE By virtue of an execution'to me directed from the Superior co«irt of 'Wilkes county, in a certain ac tion entitled Alice Miller against R. E. Elledge, G. W. EUedn, N. A. Wyatt and Elizabeth Elled)^ commanding me to levy upon ijic properly of G. W., Elledge and Elizabeth Elledge, to satisfy said exerjtion, and levy having been made by me on the following prop erty as prescribed by law. I will, on Monday, March 7, 1938,, at 12 o'clock, Noon, at the courthouse^ door in Wilkesboro, N. C., offer' for sale for cash to the liighest j I bidder, all the right, title, inter- ’ sealed jar given to me by Mr. John R. Prevette on this date, contained the following number of coins and amounts-: Pennies 804 $8.04 Nickels - 1 .05 Dimes 31 3.10 Quarters — 8 2.00 Halves — 1 -50 ledge, in and to the 845 $13.69 Signed DUDLEY S. HII.L. Sworn to and subscribed to be fore me this 2nd day of Febru ary, 1938. LOIS SCROGGS. Notary Public My commission expires Feb. 2. 1939. Quilt Cloth — Tliousand.s of yards—Two big truck loads— .Sundus slocks bought direct from several of the world's larg est cotton mills. Quilt cotton, 8 lb. rolls at .SOc. Make up your tract of land, situated in North timpship, following in North and. deg’’ Wilkesboro scribed as follows-^— Beginning on a stake in the northea.st line of the 16 acre tract of lard owned by G. W. El ledge and Elizabeth Elledge, run ning a west direction to the west comer of said tract, .nnd being lo cated on the north end of said lands, running with the origin.nl lines so as to include a two-acn'. sq'jare of the said 16 acre tr.ncz A lands purchased by the said W. W, Elledge and Elizabeth Elledge, from .r. G. Teague, to satisfy said execution. Thi.s Feiiruarv 3, 1938. C. T. UOUGHTON, .Sheriff By Odell Whittington, D. S. 2-24-4t (T) 666 Lianld. Tablets. 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